Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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